> If you are introduced to someone (a stranger), it is normal courtesy to shake hands with him/her (and that's it, no hugs, no kisses), as well, unless the other person is an old friend the normal shaking of hands is the normal means of greeting.
In northern Italy, most of the times. In southern Italy, kissing is much more common and it's often used even in formal environments. Shaking hands it's seen as polite but cold.
The stereotypical Italian is, for many reasons, the southern Italian, hence the kissing meme and other exaggerations that really do not apply to northern Italy.
It's widely known state of things because of the current situation (low interest rates for very long time, etc.). Infact, many financial institutions and experts have been of the idea that a major stock crisis was around the corner for a while.
You could argue that most would have disagreed, but at the end 2018 many stock crisis indicators, models and statistics started to turn red and indicate that a crash was close.
2019 had a couple of close calls like the Turkish lira crisis, but there was never widespread panic to feed a worldwide crash. Now there is.
Tech has become much more self-referential in the last years. Now we do tools that help build a system that can build an app to cash in minimal productivity gains
Before you get on a technical interview, an automated system, an HR person and a project manager (or similar) will have to pass on the application, which encourages putting buzzwords tech terms on a CV.
Sadly today fewer and fewer companies look at soft and engineering skills and prefer to hire people based on experience with specific tools.
In aviation, reducing fuel consumption has always been very important, since it's the most expensive part of flying.
The heavier a plane is, the more fuel it needs. But fuel has weight, too, which means you need even more fuel! Reducing fuel consumption translates to exponential operational savings.This is also why planes with batteries are problematic: batteries store much less energy per kg than fossil fuel. I doubt that the increased efficiency in going electric is going to offset the extra consumption due to the increased weight.
Even if they reduce emissions by 50% by 2050, flying will still produce ~5 more times CO2 than taking the train. And guess, what? The railway industry is also working to reduce emissions and with trains there's just so much more you can improve with much less investment.
By 2050, aviation might very well produce ~20 times the emissions of railways, even though it has halved its emissions.So, with our current knowledge, the best way to reduce aviation emissions is...taking the train.
These companies are losing customers. That is never good for business. Eventually, someone will take the matter into his own hand and start making 80s-like tractors, so these companies will lose even more customers. They could do the same, but at this point they lost the trust of their customers, so it will be very hard to gain them back.
Non-native apps can be as performant as native ones. I imagine they checked alternatives to Electron and figured a native app would allow them to have better OS integration.
That's exactly the point he's making. If you use a frontend js framework and you have to do SSR, then there's no longer any reason to use a JS frontend framework, because the reason they were made was to offload to clients the rendering, at the price of more complexity.
Back then, the cloud was not a thing yet, there was no Docker, no Kubernetes, no nice APIs to start instances, so it made sense to offload some computation to clients. Today, no longer.
